Who decides which FPCs will receive funding?

The Better Food Policy Fund is housed within a Tides Foundation Collective Action Fund. This funding mechanism shifts the responsibility of funding decisions from the donors to members of an Independent Advisory Committee (IAC).

The IAC has developed a rubric to verify an applicant’s alignment with the Fund values and other criteria identified by the larger stakeholder group in a December 2023 survey. The IAC will work in triads, using a consent-based decision-making process, to apply the alignment rubric.